U+8480 "蒀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8480 "蒀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and historically obscure Chinese character primarily found in classical texts, where it functions as a phonetic component or variant form related to other characters, such as those associated with plant names or ancient place names. Its structure combines a "grass" radical (艹) with the phonetic element "匀" (yún or yùn), suggesting a connection to vegetation or natural growth. In modern usage, this character is not commonly employed in contemporary Chinese or Japanese writing, and its exact meaning has become largely archaic, making it of greater interest to scholars of historical linguistics or ancient script than to everyday language users.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8480
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	蒀
HTML Hex Encoding	蒀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x92 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8480
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008480
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8480

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCNS1986	E-4439
kCNS1992	3-4439
kCangjie	TABT
kCantonese	wan1
kFanqie	於云
kGB3	7378
kHanYu	53248.010
kHanyuPinyin	53248.010:yūn
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53248.010
kIRGKangXi	1047.120
kIRG_GSource	G3-696E
kIRG_HSource	H-955F
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-022418
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6EBF
kIRG_TSource	T3-4439
kJapanese	ウン
kKangXi	1047.120
kMandarin	yūn
kMojiJoho	MJ022418
kMorohashi	31476
kRSUnicode	140.9
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	H